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distress

Meaning of “distress”

Sense 1: Severe trouble, anguish, or affliction. Sense 2: As a verb, to afflict, oppress, or make miserable.

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33 occurrences33 verses19 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 35:3

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Isaiah 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 25:4 · retained source text

For thou hast bene a strength to the poore, a strength to the needy in his distresse, a refuge from the storme, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall.

Isaiah 29:2
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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Yet I will distresse Ariel, and there shalbe heauinesse and sorrow; and it shall be vnto mee as Ariel.

Isaiah 29:7
¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 29:7 · retained source text

¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, euen all that fight against her and her munition, and that distresse her, shalbe as a dreame of a night vision.

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